ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sara Clayton is a junior at the University of Southern California studying public relations with double minors in web technologies and mobile app development. It seems that mankind has been portrayed as always having been at odds with artificial intelligence, or AI. Take the sci-fi film I, Robot: Del Spooner (Will Smith) … [Read more...] about Man, Machine, and Mars
Archives for November 2013
The Book Is on the Table: This Is Not about Discrimination
Brazil practices one of the most radical affirmative action laws in South America. It reserves 50 percent of spots in public universities for public high school students who are also economically underprivileged minorities. However, public high school students are usually rejected from public universities not because they are being discriminated against, but because public … [Read more...] about The Book Is on the Table: This Is Not about Discrimination
Chasing the Unicorn: Catching Flames
I don't suppose anyone's heard of this little movie that's coming out in a couple of days... It's called "Catching Fires" or something?... I dunno, it really doesn't seem like a big deal. Don't think anyone of note is in it either... JOKES GUYS, JOKES. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't feeling the whole post-"Hunger Games" movie realness for a while, but a couple of weeks … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: Catching Flames
One Nation Under Who?: No Touching My Gun. Or Marijuana. Or Gay Marriage.
It is sobering that shootings in the United States now go relatively unnoticed, other than a racially-charged shooting that makes it to the mainstream press, such as Trayvon Martin’s death or Renisha McBride’s death, or the deaths of children such as in Newtown, Connecticut. But even when these shootings take place and the inevitable dialogue about “what we could have done” … [Read more...] about One Nation Under Who?: No Touching My Gun. Or Marijuana. Or Gay Marriage.
Girls on Film: The Writer’s Struggle
From media, teachers, friends, artists, etc., an "old" saying goes that theater is an actor's medium, film is a director's medium, and television is a writer's medium. And while television has been around and popular for decades, there seems to be a rise in television. This may be because of how accessible television is. You don't really have to leave even your bed to watch … [Read more...] about Girls on Film: The Writer’s Struggle